Eleanor came out, her eyes lifeless as half her face is covered in blood. Her blonde hair once shining now has a specks of crimson red.
"Hmm... You leveled up?" Noire stared at her lifeless eyes, somewhat noticing a fracture in them.
"What do you think will happen when a level 0 priestess killed a human?" Eleanor asked before opening her palm upwards infrom of her. "This is."
Without malicious intent, the two didn't realize that they were being casted by a spell as a dark energy sprouted in their shadows, shrouding them completely before fading in the air.
"What's tha-" At the next second, both Noire and Xavier twitched as their body trembled in pain.
As they was about to retaliate, a window appeared infront of them which is dark red, darker than Noire system.
[+1 TO ALL PHYSICAL STATS.]
Seeing their realization, Eleanor willed the spell to stop and the shadows slowly faded in the air surrounding the two.
"I unlocked a new class, dark priestess and a spell called Buff Agony... As you can see, the effects are physical enhancement, it can also enhance spiritual stats."
"I'll go to the bathroom to wash, guard me." Eleanor walked towards the opposite of the emergency exit, just infront of the main staircase is the bathroom.
Just follow her, after all she's defenseless. * Xavier thought the same as Noire and begun following her.
There are no monsters in the bathroom let alone the hallway, thus they arrived safely. Noire joined to wash to with Eleanor to check her also, and Xavier is left to watch at the door of the bathroom.
Almost 30 minutes had passed, during this time, Xavier didn't find any monsters wondering in the current floor but had heared commotion outside the building and in the upper and lower floors.
Luckily, only a portion of her uniform that got smeared with blood, Eleanor came out dressed the same. Blonde hair, beautiful yet expressionless face, seemingly steming about her guilt or class.
Black uniform adorned with red engravings as well as a half way skirt, hiding her thighs with a couple of shoes.
Noire was the same, raven hair cut neatly until her waist, almost pale face and dark iris. Her uniform also made her look like a fashioned goth, those popular fashion in the internet.
The university had a strict rule for such clothes thus all of them are all the same.
Xavier was different, same uniform coupled with a long black pants and short cut black hair. She was identical to Noire, only contradicting her looks and curves.
"Hmm, since your mind is not interwind with us. It is best to stand at back lines while defending yourself when we're busy."
Eleanor gave a slight nod, before following the two out of the bathroom.
Noire also heard the commotion outside and at the high floors, thus she and Xavier walk their way towards the upper floors.
...
Bam!
The last goblin fell into the ground as Xavier pulled back his silver sword from the goblin corpse. During the raid in the 3rd floor, in the hallway, he and Noire already killed 10 and 15 respectively and Eleanor benefits as well because of the party system.
[YOU LEVELED UP TO LEVEL 6— 35/225 EXPERIENCE POINTS]
[LEVEL 5 REWARD PASSIVE "DOUBLE COINS" — DOUBLES THE AMOUNT OF COINS EARNED THROUGH KILLING AND REWARDS.]
And Xavier level up the double experience, leaving it in master level with 2.5 experience boost and immediately level up the double coin to lv2 with a boost of 2.1 coins.
With this, I can level up and gain coins more quicker... I need to be not selfish with Noire and Eleanor, now with humanity but as she is my best friend... As for Eleanor, she is just an asset.
Noire also leveled up to level 5 with a experience bar of 45/150, she used the rewards to power up her blood conjuring to level 4.
"I can use lesser mana to cast a blood and also retrieve them after used though stored outside the body, unless I will be poisoned."
"Then you can also use them to poison someone." Xavier remarked.
"I also received a skill named "blood augmentation." It let's me coat myself or weapons with blood and also manipulate them to form various shape that sticks to me."
"I received less, but thanks." Eleanor joined. With being in party, she benefits the experience gained by 10% due to being only effort in buffing. Overall experience gained by the party and subjected to 10% will be gained by Eleanor as a Party Support.
And after killing the wounded man earlier that she even don't know the name, she received 100 experience since he's only level 0. Meaning, Eleanor is level 4, spending all of the rewards to her skill (Buff Agony lv. 3) as Noire instructed as well as the first reward to a class item.
[SKULL POINTED STAFF— +1 MANA TO DARK CLASS WIELDER.]
"Hey, Xavier." Noire called out after cleaning her katana. "The double experience didn't reward Eleanor but the double coins might do."
"You mean giving me a quest to horde rewards from it?"
"That would do, if ever a quest arrived, be the lead so that we can horde as many as coins as we can."
...
They rested at the current floor since they already cleared the goblins earlier. During this time, Xavier and Noire discussed their plan for the future.
"This building university is definitely a not place to set a base, after we clear this building, let's head out to the apartments for now."
"We'll still need to kill the boss at the rooftop to leave this place, that bastard kept shaking the building up that I'm afraid that it might fall to the ground while we sat here." Xavier was right, during their raid, the commotion earlier in the higher floors change from mild shakes to almost destructive shakes.
They are only one more floor away from the rooftop and Noire, being the fastest among the group, scouted at the 4th floor earlier before they make this discussion.
"There is no monsters up there in the hallway, I doubt that with the commotion at the rooftop also drove off the monsters inside the rooms and lecture halls."
"I can't scout more ahead, at the emergency exit, the only way towards the rooftop had goblin warrior goblins guarding the way, there are two of them, in addition the one at the 2nd floor who is making the commotion there as well as the unknown variable at the top."
"Hmm... Supposed we clear all things out, I expected to be atleast level 15 at the end and you at 10, let's head the nearest mall to store some necessities and supplies."
"I'm afraid the mall is overcrowded too." Eleanor joined the discussion, just after fixing her hair to pony tail.
"We're not the only one farming this monsters off. I expected that there is some group in the lower floors that are engaging the leftovers monsters there. I doubt the same for the nearest mall or buildings."
"And with that, the other players will clear things out our way and we'll just have to retaliate or steal some supplies from them." Xavier stood up as well as Noire.
"Aren't you being too... Unhuman?" Eleanor can't help but ask.
The two didn't respond but made a slight smirk in their faces before the leaving the library, which is also connected with the library at the previous floors except the 1st and 2nd.
They climbed without confrontations at the 4th floor, just before the roof top where they expect boss are.
At the very end of the hallway, at the emergency exit acting as the only way up, there is two bulky green goblins holding an axe the size of a arm and thick as torso.
Eleanor did the task she was assigned for the plan earlier and grabbed the air infront of her towards Noire and casted:
"Buff Agony: Spiritual Body!"
Whoosh!
The dark energy didn't stem from the shadows, instead, sprouted in the nose of Noire before surrounding her like some clouds in a mountain, they fade into thin translucent darkness before Noire twitched in pain.
"My mana usage had been lessened but that's the only upgrade brought by the level up, not only you will feel more pain but also the same +1 buff to spirituality."
"Focus, Noire." Xavier slowly walked forward, drawing his silver sword at his front.
Noire kneeled at the spot, half way of the hallway facing the emergency exit where the guard gathered.
She clasped her hand forward and from there, a crimson blood curled their way at her fist before forming a long crimson spear with sharp both ends, their luster reflected the flickering lights.
"Whooo..."
"Crimson Spear!"
The single spear, 2 meter long and the thinness of a fist, flew forward at the speed of almost sound, breaking like sonic and instantly flashed across the hallway.
Swoosh!
The goblin warrior who's outside the emergency exit but guarding it with his body didn't sense and was unable to react at the sudden attack before his head was pierced with the blood spear.
Boom!
Halfway through the skull, the blood spear exploded. Shattering the already shattered skull, splashing guts and blood everywhere before forming into a blob of blood that slowly returned to Noire.
The other goblin warrior saw this and immediately push the corpse of his comrade away before rushing towards the approaching Xavier.
Earlier, he was buffed by Eleanor and his body is currently twitching in pain, but he made a stance as he placed his sword forward, ready to retaliate.
The goblin warrior swung his axe and Xavier slashed the wind at the same time.
Pang!
A loud metal crashing echoed through the room as the axe and silver sword met in the air.
Xavier was pushed backwards slightly but the bulky goblin had lacked balance and fell to her ass in the ground.
But even then, a cornered prey is still dangerous as the predator.
Xavier rushed with the silver sword pointed at the back. The goblin warrior's axe is the same stance too but is trying to stood up in retaliation.
Whoosh!
Clang!
The silver sword met the axe again, this time, the goblin warrior can't help but to loose his grip at the axe, it was threw in the air and Xavier already recovered his stance.
Whoosh!
He sliced sideways.